Growing, Updating & Upgrading

After over a year of building, designing, & researching, PGE relaunched to the public on April 14th, 2018. We've had our share of problems over the past few months with various upgrades & unexpected bugs, but so far we're still going strong. That's why this post is so difficult to announce, because I have had to make a really hard decision to shut down the network for the next couple of weeks while I rebuild it from the ground up.

Why am I doing this? This is a fairly complicated answer, but to try and sum it up in one word: Upgrades. Our current platform is currently running v3.7.5 and the current version of the platform is v3.8.10. I'm not entirely sure or how this happened, but even though I rolled back our previous upgrades one of the bugs that popped up after the upgrade returned somehow. I am hoping that with the new rebuild that we'll finally squash these bugs once & for all, or at the very least track down how and why they're showing up.

What about data lose? I am doing aproximately 7 different database backups along with making various notes on the installation order.

How long before the network shuts down & how long will it take to rebuild? It will take a couple of days to back up all of the frontpage articles & news mods. With each article and mod backed up, it will be unplished from the network. This means that you'll see a lot less content & I will be removing the links from the menu as well so you don't end up getting that dreaded 404 error while visiting.

Starting tomorrow, Monday July 9th, 2018, you will not be able to login or register on the network. Registrations will obviously return when the new site officially launches.

Once everything is backed up & deleted & reinstalled, the network will be put in "Under Construction" mode until we have everything setup.

As we progress through this rebuild I will be posting updates on our under construction page as well as our facebook page as well.

What's going to happen to Boot Scootin' Thursday Night & the Music Video of The Week? Those will continue on our facebook page and when the network returns they'll return to the network.

Again, I'm deeply sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. I'm not entirely sure how or why these things are happening, but hopefully we'll get everything sorted out, and we won't continue to have these kinds of problems in the future.